Marge Simpson Becomes a Food Blogger

One more food blogger is getting her voice out to the public. The food blogosphere will enter the animation stratosphere when Marge Simpson becomes a food blogger on the November 13 episode of The Simpsons.

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According to Eater, the episode — aptly named, "The Food Wife" — will feature a slew of celebrity chefs: Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck, Julia Child, Guy Fieri, Anthony Bourdain, and Mario Batali among many, many others. Will Marge defend the food paparazzi? Will Gordon rip her a new one? Will she leave Homer and run off with Anthony Bourdain? Your guess is as good as ours.

This isn't the first time the writers of The Simpsons have jumped on a food trend. In this year's season premiere, Marge dreamed that she was a contestant (or cheftestant) on a reality cooking show, and Tom Colicchio deemed her peanut butter crackers transcendental. Lisa and Bart, of course, did not.

On October 24, 1999, during the eleventh season of the series, Homer, the infamous beer connoisseur, became a food critic for the local Springfield newspaper, The Springfield Shopper. He angers everyone by tearing all the restaurants apart in his reviews.

And yet, in another episode, Lisa turned the family on its head when she became a vegan. Paul McCartney helped her with that task.

Food is prolific on the television airwaves — just take for example the explosion of the Food Network, the addition of the Cooking Channel, upcoming new food reality shows that join an already long roster, and the recent launch of daytime talk show "The Chew," which took over the "All My Children" time slot.

But The Simpsons does what no other show can do: It gathers our favorite celebrity chefs, living and dead, all in one place while at the same time giving a housewife named Marge the chance to sound off.